Upgrading my GPU, should i wait for kepler?

[Dovin]

At the start of the summer (about 1 month from now), i will have started my summer job (or whatever you call it in English) and i am going to get my first paycheck early. I am going to upgrade my whole PC, but i'm not sure what i should do with the graphics card. First of all i really want a GTX 580 Lightning for OC, but then i remembered kepler should be out around Q4 2011 or Q1 2012 (i have no confirmation, i believe Nvidia said it was scheduled to be released in 2011 so i'm guessing it should be a couple of months around new year). So what i'm thinking is i could buy a 560 Ti now for 1800NOK (about 200 GBP, 9 NOK = 1 GPB) that costs 2000 NOK less then the 580 Lightning and then buy the 560 equivalent of the kepler series, i'm guessing it would be 660 (or something), but would the 660 be as good/or better then the 580 Lightning? I know there isn't all that much of information out now, but if anyone has any semi-solid information it would be much appreciated. And would the 6xx series cards be about the same length of the 5xx series, or is that just guesswork as well?

Thanks and sorry if my English is a little bad and sorry if the costs was a little hard to understand. I hope you could at least understand my question.

 

[yggdrasil]

It is up to you, 7 months is a little long to wait to get a video card that you want.

There will always be a new video card coming out, There always is and always has been, AMD brought out its 6990 and then released information on the 7990 that will be coming out straight after.

I would say just get the GTX580 that you sound like you really want. The 6XX is ages away in "computer time".

 

[seattlesound154]

plus think of all the fun you'll have with a 580 for the next 7 months.

 

[rwiuviberwVFIUBER]

You also don't know if the 6 series is going to be a huge success. It could turn out to be a power consuming flop. I'd wait for the second line of upgrades if I was that desperate, but since I've finally bought my second GPU, I've made it a rule to upgrade every second DX, or 3 years, which ever comes first

 

[yggdrasil]

Edit

Ops wrong post

to many tabs open.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

when that GPU comes out you may as well say "well the new GPU is going to come out soon." just get the 580.

 

[Icekube]

Gpu's get replaced all the time mate, you'd end up never getting anything if you always wait 6-8 months for the newest shinny piece of hardware as things get replaced that quickly. The 580 is a cracking card, but if your still unsure if it's worth the money in case you did want to change to a 600 series card when they come out, then buy a 570 in the meantime as they're prob the best value for money and there are no games it struggles with on max settings.